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This 9 page paper looks at the advantages and the disadvantages of using expatriate employees to staff foreign subsidiaries. The paper looks at the concepts of organizational learning and the spread of knowledge, the issue of cultural differences, internationalization of staff as well as the costs, difficulties in obtaining the advantages and problems of repatriation. The bibliography cites 15 sources.
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workers and it is a trend that is increasing, with 45% of firms expected this number to rise (Black and Gregersen, 1999). However, up to 20% of those sent aboard
to work will return early, and about 33% expatriate workers will have a performance level that does not live up to the employers expectation (Black and Gregersen, 1999). With these
potentially high costs there must be many strong reasons why firms will choose to use expatriate workers rather than hire local workers, and to carry on with the practices firms
also need to understand and accept the potential problems or disadvantages associated with expatriate workers. The use of expatriate workers may be seen to emerge as a result of
different drivers, the potential to the firm of using an individual with skills, or developing the skills of international workers as a pull factor, or the push factor of the
inability to recruit locally for the tasks required. This is general agreement that for companies to succeed in a global commercial environment there is the need for the company
to be able to deal the dynamic nature of the commercial environment and adopt a multicultural approach (Mintzberg et al, 2003; Bartlett and Goshall, 1989). Antal (2000) argues that
in order to develop the skills and ability to respond to these challenges there are three key ingredients; "a powerful strategic vision, a response to structure, and internationally skilled people".
It can be argued that the most important of these three key ingredients are the people, as it is the people that are responsible for creating the vision and the
structure as well as implementing the decisions which create or impacts on these elements (Antal, 2000). Therefore, a major driver for employers is the ability to develop their employees core
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